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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

8FPS: Stabbing in Mobile Home

Tuesday ended up being a little more exciting than expected. While looking for wild art, I was getting depressed at the lack of uniqueness in the town. I had searched for about an hour and a half with no luck. Well, as luck goes, when there's no news, get ready because something is about to happen.

Sure enough, it did. I was at the scene of a fallen tree, when I noticed police race to their patrol cars are flee the scene with sirens blazing. This generally means I better listen to my scanner. I heard of chatter about police looking for a suspect. A quick call to the office and got an address. I headed out to the scene of a stabbing in a mobile home park alongE. Lassen Ave. There had been a victim of a stabbing and police were searching for a suspect at the time I arrived.

When I arrive on scene to situations like this, it is always important to work with police to gain the access I need. There is a positive relationship with the Chico Police that the Chico Enterprise-Record has. We have been able to gain the access we need without jeopardizing the duties of law enforcement. I was able to gain entry to the mobile home part where I kept a tight ear on my scanner to hear of updates to police activity. I heard of them moving in on a suspect near the rear of the complex. I couldn't walk through the police tape that had been setup, because that area had been designated a crime scene. I hopped a fence and walked around the complex to where police had apprehended a suspect. They took the suspect into custody and the excitement was over.

Chico Police Det. Jim Parrott (left) and Sgt. Scott Franssen (right) walk into the victim's home after a report of a subject who had been stabbed in the trailer park at 370 E. Lassen Ave Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in Chico, Calif. (Jason Halley/Chico Enterprise-Record)

Chico Police officer Scott Zuschin responds to a report of a subject who had been stabbed in the trailer park at 370 E. Lassen Ave Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in Chico, Calif. (Jason Halley/Chico Enterprise-Record)

Chico Police Lt. Jennifer Gonzales (left) and officer Scott Zuschin (right) safely escort a Cal Fire-Butte County fire truck as the remain on the search of a suspect who stabbed a victim in the trailer park at 370 E. Lassen Ave Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in Chico, Calif. (Jason Halley/Chico Enterprise-Record)

the victim Jeffrey Smith is tended to by Enloe Paramedics as Chico Police responded to a report of a subject who had been stabbed in the trailer park at 370 E. Lassen Ave Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in Chico, Calif. (Jason Halley/Chico Enterprise-Record)

Chico Police move in toward the suspect's residence to secure the scene as they responded to a report of a subject who had been stabbed in the trailer park at 370 E. Lassen Ave Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in Chico, Calif. (Jason Halley/Chico Enterprise-Record)

Chico Police Det. Jose Lara (top) looks for a suspected weapon thrown atop the roof of the suspect's neighbor's residence as they responded to a report of a subject who had been stabbed in the trailer park at 370 E. Lassen Ave Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in Chico, Calif. (Jason Halley/Chico Enterprise-Record)

Chico Police officer James Dimmitt (far left) walks past officer Wayne Rockwell (left) and Det. Jose Lara (right) who detain suspect Robert Morrison (center) as they responded to a report of a subject who had been stabbed in the trailer park at 370 E. Lassen Ave Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in Chico, Calif. (Jason Halley/Chico Enterprise-Record)

Chico Police officer Wayne Rockwell (left) places suspect Robert Morrison, 29, under arrest after they responded to a report of a subject who had been stabbed in the trailer park at 370 E. Lassen Ave Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in Chico, Calif. (Jason Halley/Chico Enteprise-Record)

The event was pretty low key. There was no big standoff and thankfully no fatality. Overall this incident is how I like them. They have all the excitement and intensity, without any of the disastrous outcomes. It is cleaned up easily and the report is pretty cut and dry. Just a good 'ol routine law enforcement. Although I did have a great reaction from the suspect when he was arrested. He flipped me off behind his back with his hands in cuffs and then made a goofy face and sounds as he walked past me. He really was a character. These are the times I wish I had the HDSLR to record video of it.